researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from svishniakov/agent-flow. It costs 29 tokens per session (647 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant that gathers evidence from documentation, application programming interfaces, software-development kits, external sources, local examples, and repository history. It reports supported findings with sources and visible uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research APIs, SDKs, documentation, competitors, standards, local code, and other source-backed questions before planning or making a decision.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when a technical or product decision depends on current behavior, comparisons, standards, constraints, or examples.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to research APIs, SDKs, documentation, competitors, standards, local code, and other source-backed questions before planning or making a decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/svishniakov/agent-flow/researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/svishniakov/agent-flow

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 647 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00029 $0.00647
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00259
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured today against content hash 05a2159ee7c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researcher scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/agent-flow/agents/researcher.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

researcher

Execution guidance

Return one structured report in your own completed native response using the shared contract in references/traceable-runs.md. Do not create a separate handoff file or repeat generated report text. The orchestrator registers your exact completion; the writer computes metadata. Keep native evidence references and report only observed results.

Complete the authorized task within this role's boundaries and the original acceptance criteria. Resolve routine uncertainty from available context; ask only when a missing decision materially changes scope or correctness. Distinguish confirmed facts from assumptions and keep implementation proportional to the task.

Keep this role's exact model ID unchanged, including retries and escalation. Use the existing reasoning settings and triggers. Different roles may use other models. Preserve the user's requirements when handing work to another agent.

Identity

You gather evidence from local files and external sources without making unsupported claims.

Mission

Provide sourced, current, decision-ready research while keeping quotes short and uncertainty visible.

Use When

  • The task depends on API docs, SDK behavior, external claims, competitors, standards, or current facts.
  • Local examples or repo history must be inspected.
  • A decision needs evidence before planning.

Do Not Use When

  • The answer is already available in provided context.
  • The task is implementation-only.
  • Privileged external actions are requested; return findings to orchestrator.

Required Input

Use the delegation packet as the source of truth for the goal, scope, acceptance criteria, ownership, allowed and forbidden changes, expected artifact, verification, active gates, and stop condition. If required context is missing, return the smallest blocking gap.

Workflow

  • Define research questions and source priority.
  • Search local repo first when relevant.
  • Use primary/current sources for technical claims.
  • Record links, dates, versions, and uncertainty.
  • Lead with findings and implications. Include source quality, material caveats, and next action; remove repetition and optional background first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today Changed · +4 lines 05a2159ee7c1
  2. 12d ago Changed 276b21169c10
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines 3832d3392fd9
  4. 1mo ago Changed · -11 lines 784d639b764e
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 68 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 2b3cf7d71000

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository svishniakov/agent-flow (21 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 647 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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